|
I had lyme last year from a tick I never saw, but the timeline
correlated with a few days I fished on Block.
I fished block then two weeks later I was on block again. Just as I
arrived on Block for the second session.... I developed flu like
symptoms, extreme energy loss, aches...etc....
Then after 4 days of what I thought was a stomach virus....I had a
reaction was similar to your calf but on my foot in between my big
toe and middle toe. It was not a bullseye but an angry rash. I just
assumed it was something related to a low immune system and some
funk from marching around in my neoprene petri dish.
On my way home my foot swelled up like a balloon. I went straight
to the doctor, who looked at it once and diagnosed it as lyme.
What was interesting....I didn't have any classic bulls eyes until the
day after I took the anitbotics. It was like a magic trick, I woke up
the next morning covered with bulls eyes. So many, I looked like a
dalmatian.
After tests confirmed they stated that I was two weeks into the
infection. This is where I suspect, that I picked it up in Block two
weeks earlier.
Considering this it sort of had me wondering how the disease spread
out there..rats on a ship....swimming deer....human or dog carriers.
It also has me thinking about my general drop in hygiene when I
binge fish. Lets face it....most of us walk the fringe of being wild
animals when we get out there. The tick could have been in my
wetsuit, waders, or booties. Those thing never really see any
conditions that would kill ticks. Maybe some tick shampoo will need
to get mixed into the wetsuit soak....or I need to go hippy and
envelope myself in a dense musk of some teatree Patchouli to repel
those hideous parasites.
|